Bloomberg Singapore’s dollar has established itself as Asia’s most resilient currency against the US dollar this year, and some strategists are betting on more strength if price pressures force the nation’s central bank to tighten its exchange-rate policy again next month. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Citigroup Inc and MUFG Bank Ltd are among banks that are bullish on the …
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Stocks fall in cautious start to key Fed decisions week
Bloomberg Stocks slid with US equity futures in a cautious start on Monday as investors await a slew of interest rate decisions in the days ahead and after global equities notched their worst week since hitting this year’s low in June. Futures on the S&P 500 index dropped 1% along with the Nasdaq 100, indicating extended declines for the …
Read More »China struggles to stem yuan slide with fixing, warnings
Bloomberg The yuan fell, an indication that China’s latest attempts to beef up the currency with a record pushback in the reference rate and verbal warnings is barely holding back a selling wave. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) fixed the yuan at 6.9396 per dollar, 647 pips stronger than the average estimate in a Bloomberg survey of analysts …
Read More »Biden ‘warns’ Xi of investment chill if Beijing supports Putin
Bloomberg President Joe Biden said he warned Chinese President Xi Jinping it would be a “gigantic mistake†to violate sanctions imposed on Russia, but that there’s been no indication that Beijing has provided weapons to Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. Biden, according to excerpts from an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes†airing Sunday, said he spoke with Xi shortly …
Read More »France denies it’s mulling halting power exports to Italy
Bloomberg France denied a report that it’s considering cutting power exports to Italy, saying it’s committed to maintaining power supply to its European neighbours. France “reaffirms its commitment to reciprocal solidarity regarding gas and electricity with all our European neighbours,†the energy transition ministry said in a statement. “Fully functioning electric interconnections are a priority for collective supply security.†…
Read More »FedEx’s warnings highlight economic risks, its own issues
Bloomberg FedEx Corp’s profit warning this week hit a nerve with global markets already jittery over the state of the economy. Shares of the delivery giant sank 21% last week, wiping out $11 billion in market value, and dragging the broader market to its worst week since June, as the results fuelled concern of weaker e-commerce and business-to-business activity. …
Read More »Warren urges DOT to block JetBlue’s $3.8b Spirit deal
Bloomberg Senator Elizabeth Warren urged federal airline regulators to block JetBlue Airways Corp’s proposed merger with Spirit Airlines Inc. by invoking a rarely used authority from the 1950s to argue that the $3.8 billion deal isn’t “consistent with the public interest.†In a letter to Transportation Department Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the agency could use its …
Read More »Virgin Australia not in a hurry to get back into long-hauls
Bloomberg Virgin Australia is reluctant to resume long-haul services even as demand for international travel soars, Chief Executive Officer Jayne Hrdlicka said, as the airline seeks to rein in costs and prepares for an initial public offering as soon as next year. “Anything that we did from a long-haul standpoint would have a very high hurdle on it,†Hrdlicka …
Read More »FAA hits airlines on flight delays after United CEO comments
Bloomberg US aviation regulators struck back at major carriers’ reliability after the head of United Airlines Holdings Inc called the government’s air-traffic system “by far the No. 1†cause of flight delays. United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby made the comments in Washington during a conference. Within hours, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement, including a chart …
Read More »Amazon opens its email marketing to boost sales
Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam. The company announced the initiative at the Amazon Accelerate conference in Seattle, where it demonstrates new features to the independent businesses that sell more than half of the products on Amazon.com. Merchants will be …
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